Up-Coming: A Day of Silents

This coming Saturday the SF Silent Film Festival presents a special 1-day festival at the Castro Theatre. The 5 programs range from star vehicles for Douglas Fairbanks, Harry Houdini & Anna May Wong to a documentary & a French avant-garde fantasy. All are accompanied by live music.

The day starts with a splash with Douglas Fairbanks in the swashbuckling, technicolor The Black Pirate. The BFI National Archive will present a compilation of travelogues & newsreels of pre-war China, which ought to be an interesting time capsule. Harry Houdini stars in The Grim Game, a film until recently thought to be lost, in a restoration that premiered earlier this year. It is famous for footage of an unintended airplane crash which was then incorporated into the plot. In the evening the festival presents L'Inhumaine, a fantastical French melodrama, & Piccadilly, a British drama featuring Anna May Wong.

§ A Day of Silents | Films & Tickets | Passes
San Francisco Silent Film Festival
Saturday, December 5, 2015
Castro Theatre

§ Schedule at a Glance

11:00 am
THE BLACK PIRATE 
1926, USA, 84 min
Live musical accompaniment by the Alloy Orchestra

1:00 pm
AROUND CHINA WITH A MOVIE CAMERA
Filmed 1900–1948, 68 min
Compiled in 2015 by the BFI National Archive
Live musical accompaniment by Donald Sosin

3:00 pm
THE GRIM GAME
1919, USA, 73 min
Live musical accompaniment by Donald Sosin

6:30 pm
THE INHUMAN WOMAN (L'INHUMAINE)
1924, France, 122 min
Live musical accompaniment by the Alloy Orchestra

9:15 pm
PICCADILLY
1929, UK, 92 min
Live musical accompaniment by Donald Sosin